Khyber Pukhtunkhwa government has decided to start an ambitious agriculture emergency programme from next month by implementing projects of water conservation and augmentation, increasing production...
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Malnutrition kills five more children in Thar
F.P. Report THARPARKAR: At least five more children died at the Civil Hospital Mithi, Tharparkar, due to malnutrition and other diseases on Friday. According to the district administration, the total...
Four more infants die in drought-hit Thar
MITHI: Four more children died from complications caused by malnutrition and other waterborne diseases in the drought-hit Tharparkar district in the last two days, taking the death toll to 76 this...
Two more children die of malnutrition
F.P. Report THARPARKAR: The death toll of children due to malnutrition in Sindh’s Tharparkar region continues to climb as two more passed away on Thursday. According to Sindh health department, the...
Two more infants die in Thar’s Mithi Civil Hospital
F.P. Report THARPARKAR: Two more infants died at Civil hospital Mithi, in Sindh’s drought-hit district of Tharparkar on Friday, due to the health problems caused by chronic malnutrition prevailing in...
Sindh Govt to launch nutrition program for 50000 families of Thar
F.P. Report KARACHI: The Sindh Government to cope with growing deaths of infants in Tharparkar District has decided to launch nutrition program for 50000 families of the area. This was disclosed by...
Murad orders relief measures in drought-affected areas
F.P. Report KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah keeping in view drought like situation in 148 dehs of seven districts of the province has decided to distribute wheat among the affected...
“Rise in heat waves demands comprehensive strategy”
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan issued a statement regarding heat wave. He said that I want to take this opportunity to elucidate the issue pertaining to...
Relief activities in Tharparkar
F.P. Report Karachi: The Director General, PDMA Sindh, informed today that the relief activities in the drought hit districts of Tharparkar have entered in 20th day. The relief activities in Sanghar,...
Pakistan: Drought-hit areas get aid
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has approved a grant-in-aid worth dollars 6,52,000 as emergency assistance to areas affected by drought and...
Afghanistan/Iran: Flow of Hirmand river approved
KANDAHAR (NNI): Afghan Minister for Housing and Urban Reconstruction, Youssef Pashtun, has said his government had approved the restoration in the flow of Hirmand river for 60 days to Iran and was...
Pakistan: Rescue operation continues unabated
ISLAMABAD (NNI): The rescue teams comprising troops of Northern Light Infantry (NLI) on Tuesday continue struggle to rescue over 5,000 homeless as well as injured in the far-flung areas in Northern...
Afghanistan: Efforts on to regrow fruit after drought
KANDAHAR (Agencies): Glass pipes where grape juice once flowed are now clogged with dust. Birds swoop through a maze of conveyer belts before flying to their nests in the factory roof. A bus that...
Pakistan: Drought relief package - Provinces to get Rs 6bn assistance
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is providing Rs.6 billion from the Federal PSDP to the provincial governments for implementing Drought Emergency Relief Assistance (DERA) Programme for the year,...
Pakistan: Plea to declare all districts calamity-hit
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: The provincial Secretary-General of National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP), Sardar Hussain Bacha, has thanked the government for declaring a few districts calamity-hit due to...
Afghanistan: Thousands of refugees who fled Taliban flood Kabul
Updated on 3/23/2002 9:35:37 AM KABUL (SANA): The rented bus hummed with excitement. Mojeeb, 12, clutched a parrot cage and a certificate from an English language course. Shazia, 22, glowed in a...
Pakistan - Irrigation shortage: Agri yield target unlikely this year
ISLAMABAD (APP): Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Khair Muhammad Junejo has said that farmers should adopt new techniques of water management to overcome growing shortage of irrigation...
Afghanistan: Heavy rains, cold torment refugees at camps
Updated on 1/16/2002 9:39:58 AM HERAT (Agencies): It was hard to say whether the tears smearing the face of Leila's newborn baby were the child's or the mother's.Wiping at them, the displaced Afghan...
Afghanistan: Residents eating shrubs to avert starving
Updated on 1/9/2002 9:39:20 AM BONAVASH (Agencies): The village of Bonavash is slowly starving. Besieged by the Taliban and crushed by years of drought, people on this remote mountain have resorted...
Pakistan: IRSA seeks proposals from provinces on new water accord
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: IRSA has directed all the provinces to prepare new proposals for water distribution to the next meeting likely to be held next week, an official source said on Tuesday. The...